Occasional Shippers

Handling two or three shipments a month sounds simple, but it can seem like every shipment needs a different form or must comply with a different regulation. Whether you are a big or small business, you experience these challenges.

Frequent Shippers

You have regular, consistent import and/or export shipments. You’ve engaged brokerage and freight providers to help, but managing multiple shipments and multiple partners can be a drain on your time and resources.

Enterprise Shippers

Your business has a global footprint, and managing your supply chain takes significant time and resources. You need help to maintain consistent, repeatable and compliant trade processes from end-to-end.

Carriers

As a carrier or driver, customer service is your top priority. We’ll help you navigate the border quickly and deliver on your commitments. We can even help you offer additional services to your clients.

As part of the Compliance Assessment, Livingston will examine each of the following processes to assess levels of program compliance:

Tariff classification – We review your ability to determine classification and manage or validate classification provided by third parties.

Valuation – We review the logic and documentation used to determine the value for duty of your goods. We also look at your pricing relationships with related and non-related parties.

Origin determination – We verify that audit trails exist to support rule of origin claims under free trade agreements, such as NAFTA.

Record keeping – We examine record-keeping practices to identify gaps with customs or Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

Duty reduction – We ensure that all duty programs are being properly administered.

Results from our review of your documents and processes allow you to gauge your level of compliance to customs rules and regulations and identify areas of potential risk, give you the peace of mind that in the event of an audit you have already taken steps to review and address gaps or areas of non-compliance, avoid penalties and Sarbanes-Oxley issues and if serious non-compliance issues are discovered, allow you to voluntary disclose.

We provide clarity in a world of trade complexity so that businesses can grow further, faster, smarter. Over 30,000 clients trust us with their customs brokerage, trade consulting, global trade management and freight needs.